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"Talk to Sales for pricing" is bullshit and has always been bullshit. Shitty web UIs with no bulk change capabilities, but that you can script using the internal API from the Dev Tools Network tab are bullshit. If AI helps drag this industry into the future away from that, I welcome it.
I use claude code daily, but I've never been in a situation where Claude code was "deciding which product to use," that doesn't make sense to me. Claude is never on the web reading documentation - as far as I can tell that's not even in its toolkit. Can anyone give me more context for this? How do you end up having Claude code reading documentation and "choosing" a product to use? What type of prompts lead to this? I…
"look into the possibilities for X search the web, do thorough comparison. look on HackerNews both to gather sources and gauge sentiment in the comments"
this yields pretty good results IMO.
If I am using an API/library, I will also ask "is this approach idiomatic? what does the documentation say? look through at least 10 pages online"
I use claude code daily, but I've never been in a situation where Claude code was "deciding which product to use," that doesn't make sense to me. Claude is never on the web reading documentation - as far as I can tell that's not even in its toolkit. Can anyone give me more context for this? How do you end up having Claude code reading documentation and "choosing" a product to use? What type of prompts lead to this? I…
Here's an example, https://shottr.cc/s/165K/SCR-20260131-oys.png Claude Code v2.1.29 Opus 4.5 · Claude Team ~/stow/tmp I have a new project In it, I want to scrape hacker news data. The project will be built in python. I want to search first what are the latest projects in python that could help me extract the data. This could be via api or scraping it. Once you have a plan, ask me 10 questions to help navigate the s…
there are many Claude Code variants waiting to be built. not TUI code editors, but environments in which LLMs get superpowers
that's the product you should build rn
I think Claude Opus needs to re-read Steve Yegge's platform rant and rewrite that part about Amazon. https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's an example, https://shottr.cc/s/165K/SCR-20260131-oys.png Claude Code v2.1.29 Opus 4.5 · Claude Team ~/stow/tmp I have a new project In it, I want to scrape hacker news data. The project will be built in python. I want to search first what are the latest projects in python that could help me extract the data. This could be via api or scraping it. Once you have a plan, ask me 10 questions to help navigate the s…
Wow, I had no idea. Thanks.
It's got a couple tools built into it that it can use.
> One human developer might make 100 API calls a day while building something. That same developer with Claude Code might make 10,000 API calls in a day because the agent is exploring, testing, debugging, and iterating at machine speed.
Isn't this what mocking was meant to prevent? Especially if the API exposes their OpenAPI docs like the author is recommending? Or is this another victim of the agentic revolution?
> Call sales
So there are some valid reasons why an API might be gated like this.
FlightAware gates their API (and their website from scrapers) because obtaining airline flight movement data is insanely expensive. Same for market data feeds (think Bloomberg) and anything related to medical records and insurance. Many services are just brokers/cleansers of this data so that companies don't have to jump through a million hoops to get direct access (if they even can).
Nonetheless, there are enough examples of reverse engineered API clients for these kinds of enterprisey APIs. That'll work great with agents, I reckon.
I recently had to fill out a PDF form to send it to the Social Security Admininistration. They didn't have the option of submitting it online so I had to print it out and take it to them. I filled out the PDF using FireFox PDF-editor, at which point it occurred to me, this is not so different from using an application which has a form for me to enter data into it. Maybe in a few years Government has a portal where I…
A pdf can be anything and everything. It's just a wrapper around text, images, html, you can even embed javascript. There's already pdf forms that are user-editable (without a pdf editor). Not all features are available on all pdf viewers though. If we're at the point where they use ai to make form pdfs, might as well cut the middleman and ask the ai to generate a form on a website.
> I think by 2030 any product without an API designed for agents will be dead And I think that products making billions today by only exposing a 20yo SOAP API are still going to make billions in 4 years. I hate having to work with them, but I've been playing this game long enough to know that most of the world is running on legacy software and it won't change in about 1400 days.
It depends on who the customer is. Government and regulated industries have massive inertia, consumers and startups will spin on a dime.
I'm going to say an unpopular opinion here: I think agents are going to turn out mostly useless, even if they worked almost perfectly. How many jobs involve purely clicking things on a computer without human authorities, rules, regulations, permits, spending agreements, privacy laws, security requirements, insurance requirements, or licensing gates? I wager, almost none. The bottleneck in most work isn't "clicking th…